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Ch. 2
General assessment terms
Question | Answer |
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impression | another way of saying assessment |
diagnosis | what the health care professional thinks the patient has |
differential diagnosis | a list of conditions the patient may have based on the symptoms exhibited and the results of the exam |
benign | safe |
malignant | dangerous; a problem |
degeneration | to be getting worse |
etiology | the cause |
remission | to get better or improve; most often used when discussing cancer; does NOT mean cure |
idiopathic | no known specific cause; it just happens |
localized | stays in a certain part of the body |
systemic/generalized | all over the body (or most of it) |
morbidity | the risk for being sick |
mortality | the risk for dying |
prognosis | the chances for things getting better or worse |
occult | hidden |
pathogen | the organism that causes the problem |
lesion | diseased tissue |
recurrent | to have again |
sequelae | a problem resulting from a disease or injury |
pending | waiting for |